SHADOW CATCHER TUTORIAL - BLENDER 3.0 EEVEE 

Thank you man I thought that its impossible to do without cycles But now I can do it

Great Tutorial! super easy to understand and and really useful. Thanks 🙏

This is such a live saver! Thank you so much!

Thank you for this tutorial it helps me while working on a commercial project and in my case Im not able to make it transparent without using Principled BSDF

THANKUUUU best tutorial i found for that, will create magic with that because of u ! :)

was searching for this many years, thank you sir

Lovely! Thank you!

Thanks! I was told it could only be done in cycles but here it is!

I have no I'd how or why this works but glad it does.

Thanks, I’ve been looking for a good tutorial on this! You’re awesome!

Hay ! Thank a lot for this tutorial ! It works great on Eevee on Blender 3.0 :D

works well. Remember to play with the threshold a bit (the color ramp) if you also have lights. It was a bit fidgy in my case.

There is even a way to improve this by adding Ambient Occlusion node to the factor mask (for ex. by adding mix node just before colorRamp), I just combined it with "darken" blending mode so it only adds the dark tones to previous result (AO in this case). This way you have the shadows and AO at once, you can now even fully control your AO spread with the node. Great tutorial anyway!! THX!

Thanks 4 the video bruv, NICE ONE!

Dood - this works just fine 👍! THX 🤟

Awesome tip thanks man!

great tutorial thank you very much

Thanks. It was very useful

Thank you so much!

Amazing tutorial.

perfect. thanks!!

worked like a charm, thank you

THANK YOU SO MUCH

this works suprisingly well for cell shaded characters

You da man, brother! 😎🏆💯

Great just what I was looking for - I found that needs a bunch of tweaking the colour ramp when using area or spotlamp as only the areas that have light falling on them will be transparent but at least we have this technique to play with as I use EEVEE way more due to speed of creating animations for clients that always have changes and feedback that with cycles would be a much longer drawn out slow process!

Thanks dude

Great tutorial, and your voice is very easy to understand. Lots of mumblers out there. I went through three or four vids before I found this one and, what a relief. I also appreciate you talking a bit about what all the boxes are for, I will continue to search for that. Thank you!

THANK YOU

Thanks much for sharing!!!

Wonderful

awesome! thanks!

WHAT??? I WAS JUST LOOKING FOR THIS

thank you so much!

Love you bro

Saved my life

if you turn on contact shadows on the lamp option, the effect will be better.

YOU ARE WONDER OFCOUSE THANKS BOSS 😀👍

thankyou vary much

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great！！！

For some reason my shadow dissappears once I go to render mode, weird

2 Words, Thank You

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How to use a bumpy surface as shadow catcher but have the surface not cast any shadow?

How do I make it so an object does NOT cast a shadow, but shadows casted onto it do not also get cast past it onto other objects? I have a scene I'm making of a house interior with two stories, and I don't want the ceilings to cast shadows but when I do that, all the objects on the top floor cast shadows onto the bottom floor. It looks so bad and unnatural but IDK how to fix it Basically I want all shadows to be from one global light, so I don't need to worry about different shadows from each room's lights. So I disabled shadows on all of them and have one sun light for shadows. But when the top floor/bottom ceiling object is not casting shadows, the effect described above happens even though those objects' shadows can still be seen properly on the top floor. I want it to catch those shadows without allowing them to be cast below it, and without casting a shadow itself.

I have my nodes setup exactly as yours. I have triple checked. When adjusting the diffuse color it changes the color of my plane/shadow catcher and not the shadow itself. Is this because Im trying this with Cycles and not evee?

Pls make a video on how to make low poly explosion in blender

QUESTION: Is there any way to do this with an ortographic camera? It seems only to work with perspective cameras.

Do you have a light catcher?

Why is it transparent when i turn the plane upside down and i also lose the shadow then :(

plane is still visible, slightly but visible, i have hdri lighting though, guess it only works with sun light

Works in viewport! When I render it doesn't show

what if after doing all that the plane is just gray?

it renders the object & shadow separately but im not seeing the shadows in the final render, can only see that they render seperate from the object. is there a fix for this?

Works great but only with a sun light. If I change the light to any other type the plane is translucent not transparent?

is there any possibility to keep the shadow when the cube is hidden

Does it work in animation?

"Welbatutsbykai-Imkai " WTF! Is this greeting style a meme or something? Handy tip on the shadow catcher, thanks. It's crazy this is one checkbox in cycles but needs multiple nodes in eevee though.

We can catch the game~

this still works on 4.0 i use it with a world HDRI to cast a fake shadow on the floor in a hdri lol

3.1 doesn't working

Does it work on area lamp?

Can anyone tell me what should I do, If i want an object to be displaying only the shadow of a different object, not casting it on itself like this method does. This really doesn't help if you want to just generate a shadow over an object in the video as then the whole object should be 3d... I can do it in cycles in a minute but not in Eevee. So this method shouldn't even be called a shadow catcher as the objects also casts the shadow on itself.

Hmm no shader to RGB node on my 3.0.1

That was the old method. Now that EEVEE has passes its better to use the shadow pass and compositor. Thanks for the tutorial though.

mine isnt working for some reason

will we ever understand why this material is not build in Blender

this does not work in Blender 4.0.2

I watched this video @ 441 views

Hellow. You need more bitrate in uploading videos (cq=10 or average=10Mb/s)

this is weird, i have the same name... i an learning from myself

They removed the "shader to rgb" node

skip to 4:11 if you've used blender before

its not 100% transparent 😐

Please, whatever you do, do not explain WHY you are doing any of this. Because then you know, people would start to understand the insanity of nodes.

In 3ds max, its so easy, just add a Matte/Shadow Material. Thats all.

If this doesen't work for anyone try moving the white slider and the black slider closer to each other (Color Ramp node) Black Slider (0.763636) White Slider (0.772727) This worked for me

THANK YOU this video has helped very clearly to me with my 5 models with a fortnite island background. Can’t wait to make my own creative map thumbnails